Impeachment News

President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, set the tone early Tuesday during what House Democrats billed as a debut impeachment hearing.  “I will be as sincere in my answers as this committee is in its questions,” Lewandowski said toward the end of his opening statement.  It turned out that Lewandowski, who already has…

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., has asked House panels investigating President Donald Trump to share impeachment documents. Nadler requested the documents in a Thursday letter to fellow Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff of California, Maxine Waters of California, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, and Elliot Engel of New York. The House Judiciary Committee chairman asks in the letter that their…

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said Thursday that his committee has begun “formal impeachments proceedings” against President Donald Trump. The House has been attempting to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment against Trump. Former special counsel Robert Mueller launched an 18-month investigation into alleged misconduct by the president. His investigation found that Russia had…

The NAACP is calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment following a speech made by a stalwart of the effort at the group’s annual convention Tuesday.   “We have in the White House a person who is ruthless and lawless, and I am a person who believes that such a person should not occupy the White House…

Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Tuesday, paving the way for the first vote on the measure since Democrats took control of the House. Green introduced the resolution after the House voted to condemn Trump over his weekend remarks about four freshmen House Democrats. Trump tweeted that Democratic Reps….

Some House Democrats openly talked Wednesday about impeaching President Donald Trump because he did something after the special counsel’s Russia investigation that he never did during the probe—invoke executive privilege. The House Judiciary Committee later voted 24-16 along party lines to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not making the entire…

President Donald Trump issued a rhetorical question on Twitter Friday morning addressing the calls for impeachment against him, which have been increasingly apparent as Democrats officially took over the House on Thursday. “How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no collusion with Russia,…

Former President Bill Clinton insists he “defended the Constitution” by refusing to resign and choosing to fight his impeachment two decades ago. Clinton, who faced impeachment counts of perjury and obstruction of justice in 1998-1999 after an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, said he wouldn’t do anything differently if he had faced the…

Legislation advancing to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired isn’t the first time Congress sought to limit a president’s personnel decisions amid talk of impeachment. “High crimes and/or misdemeanors is entirely up to Congress. They can decide that spitting on the sidewalk constitutes a high crime,” @LarrySchweikart says. If the special counsel’s investigation…

A group of six Democratic House members introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, claiming the president has violated federal law and the public trust, and should be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors. Democratic Reps. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, Al Green of Texas, and Adriano Espaillat of New York introduced five…

Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green formally drafted articles of impeachment that are designed to force President Donald Trump out of office Wednesday. The representative asserted that the president obstructed justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey in May. Other Democrats, like California Rep. Maxine Waters and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, joined in the call for…

While Democrats cry for impeachment, legal experts are dubious that President Donald Trump’s reported conversation with FBI Director James Comey about his former national security adviser would be an easy case of obstruction of justice. “No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly,” @POTUS says….

The GOP-led House voted Tuesday against impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, delaying indefinitely the conservative effort to hold President Barack Obama's top taxman accountable for the targeting of tea party groups. The decision to refer the matter to the Judiciary Committee means Koskinen can continue to serve under President-elect Donald Trump in January, unless he's fired…

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants Congress to impeach wayward government agents more often, and he’d like GOP leadership to start with Commissioner of Internal Revenue John Koskinen. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, likened impeachment “to a muscle that has atrophied over time,” and…